Obituaries

New Rochelle City Manager's Wife Dies

Agatha M. Strome was 55.

Agatha M. Strome, a lifelong resident of New Rochelle and the wife of New Rochelle City Manager Charles Strome III, died Thursday, August 8, 2013 at the age 55.

Agatha Strome was born on December 16, 1957, in New Rochelle to Pauline (Civitano) Gasparini and the late Carl T. Gasparini. She was the office manager for Lauren Paul Woodworking and was a communicant of Holy Family Church. She wed her husband Sept. 22, 1985.

She is survived by her husband, her daughter Nicole and her son Carl. In addition she is survived by her mother, her brother Paul Gasparini and his wife Mary Ellen, her sister Lisa Gasparini-Wilkie and her husband Victor. She is also survived by her nieces, Lauren Gasparini-Burkhardt, Margaret Hahesy and Jessica Strome; her nephews Thomas Hahesy and Paul Gasparini and her great niece Ava Burkhardt.

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Visiting hours will be from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, August 11 and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at Lloyd Maxcy & Sons Beauchamp Chapel, 16 Shea Pl. in New Rochelle. 

A funeral mass is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, August 13 at Holy Family Church, 83 Clove Rd. Interment will follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. 

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In lieu of flowers, donations may made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, in her name.


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